How Likely Are You to Hit a Deer While Driving? - Neatorama

Hitting a deer on the road can be terrible. Your car can suffer terrible damage and there's a real risk of losing control and crashing. And, from the deer's point of view, it's also a decidedly unpleasant occurence.

How likely are you to hit a deer over the course of a year of driving? According to the insurance company State Farm, West Virginia is the riskiest state with a likelihood of 1 in 40. You're probably safe in Hawaii, where it's 1 in 6,801. In the state of New York, it's 1 in 141, so be careful when cruising through Brooklyn.

Link -via Joe Carter | Image: State Farm

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I used to go to children's soccer games in rural Virginia and parents would compare how many deer they had hit; "I hit 5", "I've hit 4", etc.

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You never see any deer carcasses on the side of the road where I live. Word gets around quick.

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This reminds me of the Deer Crossing post we had on Neatorama a while ago.

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Large cities like NYC definitely throw this chart off. I live in the Finger Lakes and have had two deer hit me (yes, both jumped into my car) in the the last three years. There's a 20 minute drive I make a few times a week that I'll see 10-15 deer on average either crossing the road or directly next to it.

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Used to live in CNY and had many near misses. At least NY cleans up its road kill. PA not so much. Seeing deer carcasses for so many year has imprinted my brain to think dead deer when I see a large palm frond in the road down here.

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@Fae - True enough, as far as the monkey is concerned all the "words" are merely instances of a Class. There is nothing that seems to indicate in this synopsis that the monkey's recognize the Class of objects as consisting of speech. However, there are other studies, and perhaps in this study as well, in which the monkey's are in active dialogue with researchers through the words they are being taught. The extent of this dialogue is usually that the researcher issues a command like "Get the red ball" and the monkey's get the red ball. They mix it up a bit and say "Get the blue ball" or "Get the red block" and the monkeys interpret the command correctly.

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Sounds like nothing more than pattern recognition. Because these particular patterns happen to look like words is irrelevant.

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